1 62 NOTES ON OLD BUXTON AND DISTRICT. 



the Other may, possibly, determine the exart course of the 

 " Bathom Gate," as it points to Bradwell an<l Brough. 



In connection with this road, there is apparently another 

 which may have started from the same point, but at an acute 

 angle to it, and which kept a north course to Dove Holes 

 and onwards. It is discernible to the left of the turnpike 

 leading to that village, but is lost to the north of the great 

 lime-ash heap there. But its continuation would he a road— 

 the old road from Dove Holes to Chapel-en-le-Frith — which is 

 called " Roman Road " by the villagers to this day. 



Again, at right angles, or nearly .so, to the road just men- 

 tioned, and at Dove Holes, there is another striking off to the 

 east, which is still termed "Roman Road.'" It seems to proceed 

 in the direction of the " Bathom Gate,"' and if it did so in 

 ancient times, it is evident that a near course would be obtained 

 for military changes from the Roman road in the direction of 

 Whaley Bridge to the station at Brough (Navio). 



(6) At Ca.stle Bottoms, Fough Farm, near Hollinsclough, 

 there are traces of extensive foundations, divided into com- 

 partments, sufficient for some old castle or hill fort. 



(7) At Crovvdicote, near Hartington, there are remains of 

 foundations of an old castle. A passage like a cave had been 

 made under them. In it were found, about twenty years ago, 

 a number of relics, as follows: Silver coins (one of Henry III., 

 others unknown), an iron arrow-p<nnt, bronze key, frame of 

 a buckle, piece of lead with loop-hole in it, piece of bronze 

 buckle, figure of a man in lead i ^ ins. long, two other pieces 

 of bronze, bronze rowel for spur, a dressed grit-stone. The 

 latter has a socket, and may have been either a " capital "' or 

 " pedestal "' for a pillar. The cottages near the spot are partly 

 built of .sandstone, evidently from the ruins, for they are in a 

 limestone country, and the grit-stones must, otherwise, have 

 been brought from a distance. 



(8) On the west side of Staker Hill (two miles south of 

 Buxton) there are the foundations of walls, enclosing several 



